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Name: Lydia Nussbaum

Professional Title: Associate Professor

Affiliation: University of Nevada, Las Vegas Boyd School of Law

Country: United States

Title of Presentation: Legal Education, Low Income Communities, and Informal Justice

Short Bio: Lydia Nussbaum directs a Mediation Clinic at the University of Nevada Las Vegas Boyd School of Law and also teaches courses on ADR and theories of conflict resolution. She is also the Associate Director of the Saltman Center for Conflict Resolution, which is dedicated to teaching law students, stimulating scholarly research on the nature of conflict, and facilitating the resolution of public and private sector disputes. She has been teaching in the law school clinical context for a number of years and is also an attorney and mediator. She has written on consumer protection mediation and also has a background in international law and comparative forms of dispute resolution.